Patrice passionately shares the importance of diversity in families and communities and how this has influenced her work. She talks about the power of reading a wide range of books and how children learn and appreciate reading books that show characters that are outside their own experience, especially on the issue of creating empathy. Specifically, Patrice talks about how in People Like Stars the grandmother’s character is not a stereotypical representation.
Patrice has written books for children of all ages, from picture books to titles for young adults. She has won multiple awards including the Waterstones Children's Book Prize for Older Fiction and the Bookseller YA Book Prize. Patrice has been awarded the MBE for services to literature and is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature.
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